From the pages of Variety: Jeff Zucker through the years

One thing about covering this beat for so long: You get to ride the entire tenure of some Hollywood execs. Jeff Zucker blew into town in 2000 as the young wunderkind who turned NBC’s “Today” into a powerhouse… but he ends his tenure as head of NBC Universal in 2010 with a much less glowing reputation among Hollywood execs and creatives.

Here’s a round up of just a handful of Variety stories chronicling key Zucker moments through the years, since the exec got into the entertainment side of things in 2000: